Doug Griffin

HOBBS, N.M.  Services for Doug Griffin, 82, of Hobbs will be at 2 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church.

Burial will be in Prairie Haven Memorial Park under the direction of Griffin Funeral Home of Hobbs.

He died Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001, in Lubbock.

He was born Feb. 21, 1918, in Carlisle, Ark., and attended the University of Arkansas.

He then entered the Arkansas National Guard as a lieutenant in the Arkansas 206th Anti-Aircraft Artillery. He commanded an anti-artillery platoon in the Aleutian Islands during the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor. He was in the European Theater and earned four bronze stars for his service.

After his dismissal in 1945, he graduated from Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science in Nashville, Tenn. He then moved to Hobbs and started Griffin Funeral Home in Old Hobbs with his father. He ran the funeral home for almost 50 years.

Survivors include his wife, Marion; a son, Lt. Col. Gordon Griffin; a daughter, Melody Soopper; and two grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church of Hobbs.